hold in respect
Example Sentences
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He could not hold in respect the man who, it seemed to him, had betrayed his friends.
From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by Bartlett, D. W.
This was in order to grant them forgiveness together with the warning that in the future they should hold in respect the troops and the Fathers.
From Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 by Cook, Sherburne Friend
Jesuits recognize only one creed, Freemasons hold in respect all honest convictions.
From The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry by Newton, Joseph Fort
Paris, the impregnable, vanquished by famine, is no longer able to hold in respect the German hordes.
From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John
It is being overwise, to treat with contempt what mankind hold in respect: and philosophy teaches us not to extinguish our feelings, but to correct and refine them.
From A Voyage to the Moon by Tucker, George
